In this Book
- Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University Press of Colorado
In this volume, contributions from leading scholars in Maya literary studies examine Maya discourse from Classic period hieroglyphic inscriptions to contemporary spoken narratives, focusing on parallelism to unite the literature historically. Contributors take an ethnopoetic approach, examining literary and verbal arts from a historical perspective, acknowledging that poetic form is as important as narrative content in deciphering what these writings reveal about ancient and contemporary worldviews.
Encompassing a variety of literary motifs, including humor, folklore, incantation, mythology, and more specific forms of parallelism such as couplets, chiasms, kennings, and hyperbatons, Parallel Worlds is a rich journey through Maya culture and pre-Columbian literature that will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, ethnography, Latin American history, epigraphy, comparative literature, language studies, indigenous studies, and mythology.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-17
- Part I. Finding Continuities in Maya Poetics and Literature
- Part II. Establishing Traditions: Hieroglyphic Literature and Poetics
- 6. Drawing and Designing with Words
- pp. 181-193
- Part III. From Glyphs to Letters: Colonial Maya Poetics and Literature
- 11. Poetics in the Popol Wuj
- pp. 283-309
- Part IV. Keepers of Tradition: Modern Maya Poetics and Literature
- 14. Humor through Yucatec Mayan Stories
- pp. 375-400
- 17. To Speak the Words of Colonial Tzotzil
- pp. 471-475
- Contributors
- pp. 479-480
Additional Information
Copyright
2012